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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Jan 21, 2011 12:47:55 GMT -5
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Post by arrowdeath on Jan 21, 2011 15:51:44 GMT -5
1.21 GIGAWATTS!
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Post by MaybeNever on Jan 21, 2011 15:59:56 GMT -5
Then we have to hurry and save Lincoln!
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Post by shadowpanther on Jan 21, 2011 16:04:09 GMT -5
Now; people assume that time is a strictly linear progression of cause and effect, but from an outside, non-subjective viewpoint it's more of a big ball of...wibbly-wobbly....timey-wimey.....stuff. That one got away from me a bit.
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Post by arrowdeath on Jan 21, 2011 16:52:30 GMT -5
Then we have to hurry and save Lincoln! No. Lincoln will save us.  |
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Post by MaybeNever on Jan 21, 2011 16:53:51 GMT -5
Oh my god. I absolutely need to read that comic book.
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Post by Sigmaleph on Jan 21, 2011 17:08:06 GMT -5
I'll wait for someone who actually understands whatever is going on to comment.
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Post by m52nickerson on Jan 21, 2011 17:20:44 GMT -5
They talked about this experiment on an episode of "Through the Wormhole" It basically has to do with nonlocality. Nonlocality is an observed phenomenon of one object having influence over another object at great distances. Basically an atom on the earth could affect and atom somewhere else in the universe without any type of connection between them. If this is the same experiment, the Scientist where using this phenomenon along with long coils of fiber optic cable to see if they could cause an effect in one photon stream before the cause in the other. So the effect would come before the cause. In a sense moving backwards in time. Apparently they where successful. |
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Post by Yla on Jan 21, 2011 17:33:44 GMT -5
I am familiar with spatial entanglement. I am able to transpose the concept into time, but when I try to understand the resulting phenomena, my brain breaks down.
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Post by Sigmaleph on Jan 21, 2011 19:40:39 GMT -5
They talked about this experiment on an episode of "Through the Wormhole" It basically has to do with nonlocality. Nonlocality is an observed phenomenon of one object having influence over another object at great distances. That's classical nonlocality. I was under the impression that quantum nonlocality was something somewhat different. The wiki article you linked seems to support that. |
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Post by m52nickerson on Jan 21, 2011 20:58:04 GMT -5
That's classical nonlocality. I was under the impression that quantum nonlocality was something somewhat different. The wiki article you linked seems to support that. Your right, I think Quantum Entanglement is what I was looking for. I don't see an article of quantum nonlocality. |
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Post by Amaranth on Jan 21, 2011 21:12:09 GMT -5
Doc, you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium! |
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Post by syaoranvee on Jan 21, 2011 23:55:58 GMT -5
 Indeed. |
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Post by arrowdeath on Jan 22, 2011 5:01:12 GMT -5
Doc, you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium! I know, that's why I got it from a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn gave them a shoddy casing full of used pinball machine parts! And completely off-topic, but did anyone play the new Back to the Future game? |
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Post by Oriet on Jan 22, 2011 5:04:32 GMT -5
Doesn't seem that surprising, or even mind breaking, at all to me. Time is simply another dimension in our multidimensional universe, and being that, at least to my understanding, time is fuzzy at the quantum level, temporal entanglement (or whatever they're actually calling it) is a logical extension of spacial entanglement. That being said, my question is if information could be sent utilising this. I actually find it unlikely, not only because of the fragility of the circumstances for temporal entanglement to happen, but mostly because, again as far as I know, we can't transmit information with quantum entanglement (even though we can transmit entangled particles for secure communication, like with quantum cryptography).
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